Now Scrumptious Best Boardwalk Food At The Jersey Shorephoto Gallery (943thepoint): How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Scrumptious boardwalk food vote is and who runs it

Most best-of ballots in New Jersey come from newspapers or regional magazines. This one comes from a radio station. WJLK-FM, which broadcasts on 94.3 FM as The Point and calls itself the Jersey Shore's hit music channel, publishes the vote on its own website at 943thepoint.com under the headline "VOTE NOW! Scrumptious! Best Boardwalk Food at the Jersey Shore". The station is licensed to Asbury Park, and its coverage area is the Shore itself, the strip of boardwalk towns where the summer snack trade the ballot celebrates actually happens.

The feature is framed as a photo gallery. The page opens on the smell of boardwalk snacks on a hot summer night and invites readers to vote after browsing the selections, so the ballot and the editorial feature are the same page. That is a different shape from a standalone polling site: a supporter arrives through the station's content, reads about the boardwalk picks, and votes in place.

The table below collects the programme's fixed details.

Because the host is the organizer's own domain, everything a supporter needs to know, from timing to any voting rules, lives on that single page rather than being split across a platform dashboard.

The dated record: which summers the boardwalk ballot has run

The Scrumptious boardwalk food vote is a recurring summer feature with a long run behind it. Confirmed editions span 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, then again in 2025 and 2026, six consecutive summers on the station's site. That makes it one of the more established food ballots on the Shore, older than several of the readers' choice programmes it sits beside in the New Jersey market.

The window follows the boardwalk season. Voting falls across the summer months, June through August, which is when the page's own framing makes sense: the feature opens on snacks coming alive as summer arrives in Ocean County and the boardwalk nights warm up. A ballot about hot-weather boardwalk eating runs when the boardwalk is actually busy.

The precise shape of that window is the one thing the station leaves off the page. WJLK-FM does not publish fixed opening and closing dates for the Scrumptious vote, and no per-supporter voting limit or eligibility text appears alongside the ballot either; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Any nomination round before voting, if the station runs one at all, is equally absent from print.

Practically, that means treating early summer as the season the ballot goes live and checking the 943thepoint.com page directly in June of any given year rather than assuming the dates from the previous summer carried over. The six-year run shows the programme returns, but the station keeps its calendar on its own page rather than in a published schedule.

How a supporter votes on the 943thepoint.com boardwalk ballot today

The mechanic is deliberately simple, and it is worth spelling out because the ballot lives inside an editorial feature rather than on a polling platform. A supporter opens the Scrumptious page on 943thepoint.com, reads through the boardwalk food selections the station has gathered, and casts a vote using the control printed on that same page. There is no separate ballot site, no third-party poll host, and no navigation between an article and a voting form: the "VOTE NOW!" call sits at the top of the feature itself.

The page's own language sets the tone. It asks readers to vote for the best boardwalk food at the Jersey Shore after checking out the scrumptious selections, framing the vote as an extension of the station's summer coverage rather than a formal awards process. A supporter who eats on the Shore boardwalks is exactly the audience the station is asking to participate.

Three practical points follow from that shape. First, taking part costs nothing: nothing on the page ties participation to a purchase, a fee or a station promotion entry. Second, because the ballot is on the station's own domain, any rule the station sets, such as a limit on repeat voting, would appear on that page, and none is printed there now. Third, the photo-gallery format means the featured selections are presented visually, so a supporter is choosing among the boardwalk picks the station has highlighted rather than typing a free-text nomination.

Anyone planning a coordinated push should read the live page first, since the station can adjust its voting controls from one summer edition to the next without notice elsewhere.

How this ballot sits beside its New Jersey neighbours

The New Jersey best-of field is crowded, and the Scrumptious ballot differs from its neighbours on three axes: the publisher, the scope and the subject.

Publisher first. The Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice belongs to the Shore's daily newspaper, while the Scrumptious vote belongs to a music radio station licensed to the same city. That changes the audience: a radio station's ballot rides on on-air mentions and the station website's summer traffic, not on a newspaper's subscription base. Bergen & Morris Top Dentists and the Bergen County community choice awards run under the Best of Bergen banner sit in a completely different county market to the north, and Best of New Jersey covers the whole state, so neither competes directly for Shore boardwalk attention.

Scope second. The Best of Jersey Shore Contest and the Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice both cover broad territory, one regional and one food-focused county programme. The Scrumptious ballot is narrow by design: boardwalk food, at the Shore, in summer. A pizzeria on the boardwalk and a consignment shop featured elsewhere on the station's site are not in the same lane, which keeps the electorate focused on the summer snack trade.

Subject third. None of the neighbouring programmes is built around the boardwalk itself. For a business whose customers literally walk up to a counter on the boards, the Scrumptious ballot is the one New Jersey vote where the audience arrives already in the buying mood, on a summer night, looking for exactly what the ballot celebrates. That is the contrast that defines this programme against everything else in the state's best-of field.

Strengthening support for a boardwalk food pick

Winning support in this ballot means reaching people who already eat on the boards. The most effective ask is the one made at the counter or the window: a sign with the 943thepoint.com address, a staff member mentioning the vote, a summer crowd reminded while the experience is fresh. The station's feature format helps here, because the page a supporter lands on is a readable gallery rather than a bare form, so the ask feels like joining the station's summer conversation.

Whether WJLK-FM permits outside help is the open question. The station has not printed a rules policy for the Scrumptious ballot, no statement on voting software, repeat voting or organised pushes appears on the page, so any push should stay within what the live ballot visibly allows. That is a genuine difference from programmes that publish explicit anti-bot policies, and it means the risk calculus rests on the station's current page rather than on a published rulebook.

For a wider view of tactics that work across public votes, from timing asks to mobilising a regular crowd, see our votes guide. The principles there apply directly to a summer ballot like this one, where the supporter base is seasonal and the window is short.